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Researchers at arXiv found that steering vectors extracted from heading-anchor positions in tool-augmented large language models can suppress unnecessary tool use across five open-source models and three domains. However…
Researchers propose TurnOPD, a turn-level budgeting strategy for efficient on-policy distillation of long-horizon language agents. The method addresses inefficiencies in vanilla agent OPD by using adaptive rollout-depth …
Researchers introduced CanvasAgent, a multimodal agent that orchestrates multiple visual tools for complex image creation and editing, along with the CanvasCraft dataset containing 140K annotated trajectories. The agent …
Researchers formalize the execution harness of LLM agents as a learnable control layer using offline reinforcement learning, training a lightweight controller with advantage-weighted regression to improve verification be…
Researchers introduced FedPPO-PG, a federated multi-agent reinforcement learning framework for transient stability control in smart grids. The system achieved 100% stabilization in simulations on the IEEE 39-bus benchmar…
Developer Tommy Tran released Traceburn, a local-first tracer and efficiency profiler for AI agents, which identified 69% avoidable spend in a test run by suggesting prompt caching. The open-source tool, built on OpenAI …
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) enables AI assistants to interact with external tools and data sources through standardized servers. A developer demonstrates how to build MCP servers using the official SDK, with example…
Kortix launched an open-source AI platform that treats an entire company as a Git repository, enabling teams to manage agents, skills, connectors, and memory as version-controlled files. The platform provides isolated ex…
Arcade and Manufact have launched agent authorization and MCP hosting products in cloud marketplaces, signaling that agent gateways are emerging as a distinct enterprise category. Nutanix also released its Agent Gateway …
Magnus, a former SVP of Engineering at Lark and VP Engineering at Strive Health, is now Chief Tentacle Officer at Groktopus LLC, writing about AI and the future of work. He has been actively developing open-source AI too…
LLM code generation enthusiasts are creating 'vibe forks'—reimplementations of existing projects using AI coding tools—raising concerns about the value of source code as a moat. However, curation, trust, and deployment h…
Researchers introduced agent data injection attacks (ADI), a new category of indirect prompt injection that disguises malicious data as trusted data to trick AI agents into executing unintended actions. The attacks bypas…
A developer from LaiCai has proposed a context contract for AI-assisted Android automation, defining the minimum set of facts—such as target environment, device state, app package, and node schema—that an AI assistant li…
Paseo, an open-source tool for orchestrating coding agents, launches with support for running agents across laptops, VMs, and phones via direct connection or encrypted relay. It integrates with providers like Claude Code…
Addy Osmani, former Google Chrome DevRel now at Anthropic, released agent-skills, a repository of 24 workflow skills designed to prevent AI coding agents from skipping critical engineering steps like writing specs, tests…
Nemesis Security launched a Rust-based EDR called Blue and a pentesting tool called Red, designed to avoid the kernel-panic failures that caused the July 2024 CrowdStrike outage. Blue uses macOS EndpointSecurity and Linu…
AI coding tools have not significantly reduced project wall-clock time, but they enable teams to run more projects in parallel, raise quality standards, and broaden engineers' capabilities, leading to a 9x productivity i…
A developer argues that whether large language models reach the level of 'Fable 5' is not meaningful for most practical work, as usefulness depends on how one codes. The developer categorizes AI-assisted coding into thre…
Dory, an AI-native SQL client for humans and agents, has received the SourceForge Rising Star Award. The award recognizes open source projects that have achieved significant milestones in downloads and user engagement. D…
ForkMind, a new open-source tool that treats LLM context windows like Git repositories, launched to help developers branch, debug, and compare AI conversations locally. The tool captures every LLM call into a local direc…